The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... should I thruft myfelf between ? Some Wag obferves me thus perplext , And fmiling , whispers to the next , " I thought the Dean had been too proud , To juftle here among a croud . " Another in a furly fit , Tells me I have more Zeal ...
... should I thruft myfelf between ? Some Wag obferves me thus perplext , And fmiling , whispers to the next , " I thought the Dean had been too proud , To juftle here among a croud . " Another in a furly fit , Tells me I have more Zeal ...
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... should he " not have the perfection of a Drill , or of any " other animal ? " Mrs. Scriblerus , who lay all this while fretting at her husband's discourse , at last broke out to this purpose . " had many disputes with you before I was a ...
... should he " not have the perfection of a Drill , or of any " other animal ? " Mrs. Scriblerus , who lay all this while fretting at her husband's discourse , at last broke out to this purpose . " had many disputes with you before I was a ...
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... should be jealous and revengeful : The " warm and folid diet of Spain may be more be- " neficial , as it might indue ... should be kept from her breast all that day , and be fed with Butter , mix'd with Honey , according to a ...
... should be jealous and revengeful : The " warm and folid diet of Spain may be more be- " neficial , as it might indue ... should be kept from her breast all that day , and be fed with Butter , mix'd with Honey , according to a ...
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... should speak and learn nothing but the learned Languages , and especially the Greek ; in which he constantly eat and drank , according to Homer . But what most conduced to his eafy attainment of this Language , was his love of Gin- ger ...
... should speak and learn nothing but the learned Languages , and especially the Greek ; in which he constantly eat and drank , according to Homer . But what most conduced to his eafy attainment of this Language , was his love of Gin- ger ...
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... should teach moral Virtues to those people . " Whence comes it that our prefent difeafes are fo « ftubborn ? whence is it that I daily deplore my fciatical pains ? Alas ! because we have loft their " true cure , by the melody of the ...
... should teach moral Virtues to those people . " Whence comes it that our prefent difeafes are fo « ftubborn ? whence is it that I daily deplore my fciatical pains ? Alas ! because we have loft their " true cure , by the melody of the ...
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Page 94 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Page 327 - Locke takes notice of a mother who permitted them to her children, but rewarded or punished them as they treated them well or ill. This was no other than entering them betimes into a daily exercise of humanity, and improving their very diversion to a virtue.
Page 370 - Odyssey above the ^Eneis; as that the hero is a wiser man, and the action of the one more beneficial to his country than that of the other; or else they blame him for not doing what he never...
Page 403 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Page 393 - Hamlet, enlarged to almost as much again as at first, and many others. I believe the common opinion of his want of learning proceeded from no better ground. This, too, might be thought a praise by some, and to this his errors have as injudiciously been ascribed by others.
Page 357 - ... evidently, affeCt us not in proportion to thofe of Homer. His characters of valour are much alike...
Page 355 - This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and...
Page 409 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespeare, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more finished and regular, as upon an ancient majestic piece of Gothic architecture, compared with a neat modern building.
Page 397 - Vati noceat . But however this contention might be carried on by the Partizans on either side, I cannot help thinking these two great Poets were good friends, and lived on amicable terms and in offices of society with each other.
Page 49 - Love, rais'd on beauty, will like that decay, Our hearts may bear its slender...